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Carbon Storage in Harvested Wood Products: Why Bother?
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)/Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
Location: 226, 2nd floor, Collegium Maius
This side event aims at providing a basis for a policy discussion on a possible recognition of carbon storage in harvested wood products (HWPs) in a post-Kyoto regime: Is accounting for HWPs worthwhile, and at which cost?
Accounting for carbon stored in HWPs would create incentives for harvesting wood and its use in place of less climate-friendly materials. However, the volumes involved are small compared to those stored in forests, and non-permanent, and HWP accounting raises many issues of equity and leakage. No consensus has been reached so far, but policy makers must decide before Copenhagen, whether to include HWP accounting in the second commitment period, and, if so, how.
Chair:
Keith Andersen, Federal Office for the Environment, Switzerland |
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Time
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Title of presentation
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Speaker & Institution
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14:30 – 14:40 | Carbon storage in harvested wood products: Recommendations arising from the Geneva Workshop | Kit Prins, Chief, UNECE/FAO Timber Section |
14:40 – 14:50 | Accounting for HWPs is necessary and fair
speaker | TBC |
14:50 – 15:00 | The case against accounting for HWPs in a post-2012 agreement | Chris Henschel, National Manager, Domestic and International Affairs, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Canada |
15:00 – 15:10 | HWPs in a post-Kyoto agreement | Sebastian Rueter, Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institute, (vTI, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries), Germany |
15:10 – 16:00 | Discussion | |
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